Horse Box Legislation - Update

[Boolagh]

The following may effect some of you with newer chassis horseboxes. Check with your local VOSA branch:

"From 1 January 2007 all goods vehicles over 3,500kg gvw fitted with Euro 3 engines and first registered from 1 October 2001 to 31 December 2004 will be required to have a speed limiter calibrated to a maximum speed not exceeding 56mph (90kph). They will also not be permitted in the outside lane of a three or more lane motorway.
The Euro 3 requirement is important as Euro 3 vehicles have the facility to have a top speed limiter already built into the engine ECU. The calibration is therefore an electronic one and does not involve the fitment of brackets, air cylinders or piping.
As the programme has been on going for almost two years, it is unlikely that the enforcement agency, the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA), will allow any period of grace."

 

[ecrozier]

He he, now that wil stop all the swanky new horseboxes flying past me and bluebell the bedford on the dual carriageway!!
We might even get places as fast as other people now

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

I can only dream of a steep enough hill and strong wind to achieve 56mph!!!!!

 

[the watcher]

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I can only dream of a steep enough hill and strong wind to achieve 56mph!!!!!

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Likewise with my rather elderly Ford Cargo - but then on a steep enough hill I would be worrying about being able to slow down at the bottom too

 

[*hic*]

I live in the Fens with a 30 year old lorry - we dread hills! She's fine on the flat and sometimes she can even get up to 55mph but hills we just don't do.

She's called Delilah by the way - Delilah d'Lorry! Forget needing limiters etc - she's so old she doesn't need hazard warning lights or reversing lights.

 

[ecrozier]

Ah you have to love the old ones!! Being of the heavier persuasion, Bluebell the Bedford would happily achieve 56 miles an hour down hill....however it feels like 96 miles an hour and I absolutely sh*t myself if she goes over 60 as it just doesn't feel safe!! Plus, there is a funny red warning light (I have no idea what it means!) but it comes on over 50mph so I slow down just in case!
Upward slopes are an issue though, I agree. Anything more tham 100 yards or so up a slope we drop through the gears like a stone....the hill out of our local town is a 5mph job. Its a fast road as well....record was 11 cars overtaking me on a 1/2 mile stretch.